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Roblox is shutting down its video chat service
Roblox will be shutting down Roblox Connect, its video calling service introduced in 2023. Roblox Connect let you video chat with other people using your Roblox avatar, which would be able to mimic the movements you were making in real life. You could also run around with people on the call in a shared virtual [...]
Why Your Meeting Room Data Is Lying to You, And How to Fix It
If your understanding of meeting room performance is built on booking data alone, you are measuring the wrong thing. You are counting reservations rather than reality and, in a hybrid workplace where real estate costs are under scrutiny and the quality of the in-office experience shapes whether employees bother showing up, that gap matters. The organisations getting this right [...]
Big UC Update: Theta Lake’s Governance Playbook
In this Big UC Update interview for UC Today, Marcus Law speaks with Dan Nadir, Chief Product Officer at Theta Lake, about how enterprises are rethinking compliance, security, and archiving for modern communications. Dan explains how Theta Lake helps regulated organizations capture, archive, and supervise communications across collaboration platforms, including Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, RingCentral, [...]
Understanding the Invisible Workplace: Why Meeting Room Analytics Must Go Beyond Bookings
Most organisations feel reasonably confident about their meeting rooms. There is a booking system, utilization reports look plausible and demand appears manageable. The problem is that booking data only shows what people planned to do. It says very little about what actually happened. Research consistently shows a significant gap between booked and actual meeting room occupancy across enterprise organisations: in many cases, [...]
Fake IT bods on Microsoft Teams coax workers into installing malware
Unit 42 says attackers are posing as helpdesk staff and persuading employees to hand over remote control before dropping EtherRAT trojan
Brussels shows how to remove friction from collaboration
SPONSORED FEATURE: Flemish Government explores the radical notion that meeting rooms should just work
Cisco and McLaren F1 Extend Webex Partnership Into AI Observability
Cisco and McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 have extended their partnership to cover AI-driven observability. It's the latest step in a relationship that has grown steadily since Webex first became the team's collaboration platform five years ago. Splunk's existing relationship with McLaren Racing now sits under Cisco, following Cisco's acquisition of the observability vendor. That gives [...]
The Hidden Risks of Hybrid Work for UC Security
Hybrid work has fundamentally altered the way businesses operate. Over the last few years, collaboration platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom have become essential infrastructure for everyday communication, enabling employees to work across offices, homes, and remote locations. While this flexibility has improved productivity and employee satisfaction, it has also created new challenges for [...]
Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding fathers embracing AI
"Group project, but make it 1776." That's how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines what it would be like if the founding fathers turned to Google's collaboration tools and Gemini to help them draft the Declaration of Independence. Ben Franklin texts Thomas Jefferson to [...]
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